Example sentences of "[adj] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon used to tell people she was a Giorgione toned down by Gainsborough ; there is something lighter than pure Italian . |
| 2 | This aeroplane is smaller and lighter than many piston twins ; four of us easily pushed it from Donnington Aviation 's hangar . |
| 3 | This is considerably cheaper and lighter than cast iron and the different makes ( although not always compatible with each other ) are all simple to join . |
| 4 | Again this is a distortion of what is generally happening in the courts , where sentences are lighter than this average , so newspaper readers have contrasting images of many acquittals and many long sentences . |
| 5 | Moreover , housework was a highly privatised activity which was not as well regarded and was much less interesting than paid employment . |
| 6 | With all he 'd got going for him , was it any wonder that she should find him more — um — interesting than any man she had ever met ? |
| 7 | The man said , how is it your grass is greener than next door ? |
| 8 | In the centre , taller and broader than any man there , his greying head bare , stood Siward their leader , Kalv 's nephew . |
| 9 | It has the reputation of a Dutch Bonn , a provincial place of exile for civil servants , where nothing more exciting than Dutch politics ever happens . |
| 10 | So we thought we 'd riffle through the rails of leading dancewear manufacturers to find something a shade more exciting than saggy tracksuit bottoms . |
| 11 | For instance , the distinction between author and authoress may carry more expressive than propositional meaning : authoress tends to have derogatory overtones , with author being the unmarked form for both sexes . |
| 12 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 13 | KS100L : A laminate fabric approximately 10× more waterproof than other rucksack materials . |
| 14 | Such anaerobic respiration is much quicker than aerobic respiration , but also much less efficient in terms of energy produced per unit of fuel . |
| 15 | Tunings are tumbling quicker than under-prepared marathon entrants , as Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw struggle to tame this turbulent beast in the spiralling temperatures , and prompt frustrated stares from her , fulsome apologies from him . |
| 16 | The parallels between the work environment and a natural ecosystem will lead to similar responses , and intelligence is vastly quicker than natural selection . |
| 17 | It is often quicker than direct search in the original task 's space . |
| 18 | The terms of the redundancy package for those who stayed until the relocation took place were far more generous than normal redundancy provisions . |
| 19 | Because a source less abundant and less generous than this river had dried up ? |
| 20 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 21 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 22 | There is really more to this than necessary pessimism of the intellect associated with optimism of the will . |
| 23 | Ten hours of scouring had left the thirty-yard circle cleaner than any piece of ground in England . |
| 24 | Switching to oil or natural gas , cleaner than indigenous lignite , will prove costly for firms like Sternburg , Leipzig 's struggling brewer . |
| 25 | This is still not an easy subject-matter — when the Royal Academy put together its recent retrospective of ‘ German Art in the Twentieth-Century ’ it dealt with the Nazi years by ignoring them altogether — a decision that put it in line with the orthodox view of the work 's quality and conveniently avoided the embarrassing possibility that these works — kitsch , sunlit expressions of heroic physical vigour and serene landscape — might still prove more popular than German expressionism . |
| 26 | There are different opinions about the exact risk involved in oral sex , but it is generally understood to be much less risky than penetrative sex . |
| 27 | Some symbolic interactionists inveighed against the " quantomania " of variable analysis and argued in favour of a more interpretative approach to the study of social life which , for some , was more scientific than variable analysis . |
| 28 | He claimed that there was no evidence to prove that organic produce was any more nutritional or tasty than treated produce . |
| 29 | She said , well mine , she said would be further than sixty pound at the end , a hundred and twenty at the end of the quarter , but she said oh this time it 's gon na be about a hundred sixty so it 's crippling me living here ! |
| 30 | However , its stance was no cruder than most war movies made during wartime ; and it remains the only major Hollywood film about Vietnam to be made while the war was being waged . |